Domenica Catelli has positively influenced the way millions of families eat and prepare food across the United States with her tasty, easy, and healthy approach to cooking.

Domenica is a recurring judge on Iron Chef America, a guest on CBS News, CNN, and “Oprah and Friends,” with Dr. Oz on XM radio, an expert for WebMD.com, and has been featured in Southern Living Magazine, WebMD magazine and Oprah.com. She is the national spokesperson for the Organic Trade Association and has been the brand ambassador and chef spokesperson for several organic, healthy products, including Safeway’s O Organics line. Celebrities and VIPs such as Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, John Travolta, and Nelson Mandela have enjoyed her food. She has helped companies further their goals of education, outreach, and going green, including Stonyfield Farms, T-Mobile, and Cooking Light. Her family restaurant, Catelli’s has been on Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featuring their 3rd generation ravioli recipe and new favorites created by Domenica.

Her first cookbook, “Mom-a-licious: Fresh, fast, family food for the hot mama in you!” garnered the support of renowned pediatrician Dr. Alan Greene and “America’s Favorite Doctor,” Dr. Mehmet Oz:

In Mom-a-licious, Domenica provides wonderful solutions to mothers who want to feed their families healthier food and seek delicious recipes that are easy to prepare. Women looking to reduce their waistlines will find plenty of recipes in here that are preservative-free, low in sugar, and heart healthy.
-Dr. Mehmet Oz, Best-Selling Author and Cardiothoracic Surgeon

More than a cookbook, “Mom-a-licious” captures the heart of healthy eating for families and a “stick with it” mentality that leads to less fussy eating for children.

Domenica is a member of the chef advisory board of the non-profit organization Common Threads along with other celebrity chefs including Giada de Laurentis, Jamie Oliver, Paula Deen, and Tyler Florence. Over her career, many exclusive chefs have turned to her expertise when developing recipes. Domenica's contributions are celebrated in the James Beard award-winning cookbook, Back to the Table, by Art Smith and can be found on products in thousands of grocery stores nationwide.

During her childhood in Sonoma county wine country, her senses were filled with the memories of fresh, seasonal food. She has created unforgettable menus for several restaurants in California from Laguna Beach to the beautiful Mendocino coast, where she served as executive chef of the organic restaurant Raven’s at the Stanford Inn with featured recipes from the estate’s three-acre garden. Domenica reopened her family restaurant, Catelli’s, with her brother, Nicholas in Geyserville, California in winter 2010. Catelli’s originally opened in 1936 from their grandparents and now features three generations of Catelli family recipes.